Speaking at Petrograd on Tuesday, Sir George Buchanan, the British
Ambassador, gave examples of the efforts of German agents to sow distrust between Russia and Britain. According to the account in the Times, he said that a report had been widely circulated that he had threatened the Russian Govern- ment with a secret treaty with Japan whereby the position of Russia in Siberia and Manchuria would be made very uncom- fortable if she attempted to conclude a separate peace with Germany. Such malicious falsehoods would be of no avail whatever. It was impossible to doubt Russia's determination to win the war. When the Emperor pledged his word, that word would not be broken. There had been many disappointments, but the New Year opened full of promise. He predicted that in the future Russia and Britain would draw ever closer together, and would form an alliance to their own advantage and that of the whole world.
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